Liquid Separation Key to Growing Crystals (5 of 6) (VIDEO)

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Growth of a dense liquid calcium carbonate droplet from aqueous solution. Water molecules are omitted for clarity. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the 23 August, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Adam F. Wallace at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Microscopic Evidence for Liquid-Liquid Separation in Supersaturated CaCO₃ Solutions."

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[Video courtesy of Adam F. Wallace, University of Delaware]

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